If I hover the mouse over a Greek word in the BGT, the lexicon information for that word appears in the analysis window. Is it possible to create a Greek user database that can also do that?

John

03-04-2013, 11:02 AM

jdarlack

Yes it is!

Yes, it is. It takes a good deal of work, however.

All versions in BW that have the ability you mention are actually comprised of two texts, the display text and the morphology version. Typically the morphology versions have version abbreviations that end with an "M" (e.g. BGM, GNM, QSM, etc.). These morphology versions are the "work horse" of BibleWorks' original language versions. Here's an example of James 1:1 in BGT and BGM:

Each inflected form in the first text corresponds to the lemma@code in the second text (see below).

BGT BGM

inflected form lemma@code

Ἰάκωβος Ἰάκωβος@nnmsp

θεοῦ θεός@ngmsc

καὶ καί@cc

κυρίου κύριος@ngmsc

Ἰησοῦ Ἰησοῦς@ngmsp

Χριστοῦ Χριστός@ngmsp

δοῦλος δοῦλος@nnmsc

ταῖς ὁ@ddfp

δώδεκα δώδεκα@ac---n

φυλαῖς φυλή@ndfpc

ταῖς ὁ@ddfp

ἐν ἐν@pd

τῇ ὁ@ddfs

διασπορᾷ διασπορά@ndfsc

χαίρειν χαίρω@vnpa

The lemma@code is what shows up in the Analysis Window as the lexical form of the word (lemma) and parsing information.

So, for a user to create a version with parsing, they would have to create both a display text as well as the morphology version. Then, in the Version Database Compiler, they would need to define the two texts as 'sister texts'.

See chapter 61 in the BW help files for how to use the Database Version Compiler. See in particular section 3b on Greek and Hebrew options.